Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

He manages to balance Rigor and Mercy.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.